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Maddy Blaise of Brentwood is one of 95 participants in the iPlay Volleyball League, which is wrapping up its first season and ready to serve up its second.<br><i>Photo by Jeff Crump</i> iPlay, uPlay, we all play V-ball
The iPlay Volleyball League, which is wrapping up its first season, has exceeded the hopes and expectations of its founders. Ninety-five East County kids ages 9-14 participated in the eight-week p...
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Panthers can swim
The Antioch High School Panthers swim team is ready to make a splash in the 2010 competitive swim season. In her third year as Panther swim coach, Keri Miles is set to lead the team with assistanc...
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Deer Valley’s Mia Roseboro (15) knocked down five three-point shots to lead the Wolverines to a semifinal NCS victory over Castro Valley on March 3.<br><i>Photo by Kyndl Buzas</i> Deer Valley girls get to NCS finals
When the Deer Valley girls basketball team lost to Bishop O’Dowd by 19 points, the first of three straight losses in the West Coast Jamboree in late December, the Wolverines hardly looked like the...
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Cancer survivors take to the track during last year’s Relay For Life in Brentwood.<br><i>Press file photo</i> Relay – cause for celebration
No matter where or when a Relay For Life event takes place, it always starts the same way. People dressed in purple shirts linked arms wearing big smiles and wave to the crowd of hundreds as they ...
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James Travers, a seventh-grader at Dallas Ranch Middle School, urges the school board to not adopt uniforms in high schools.<br><I>Photo by Dave Roberts</i> Schools get uniform treatment
Last week’s Antioch Unified School District Board meeting briefly turned into “American Idol” as board member Wade Harper said, “With uniforms we won’t have to worry about ‘pants on the ground, pa...
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Antioch’s Jordan Hoyle goes airborne for a jump shot in a surprisingly easy victory over Deer Valley in the opening round of the NCS playoffs last week.<br><i>Photo by Jolly Hanson</i>
Antioch closes out DV
It was good old-fashioned run-and-gun, back-and-forth, smash-mouth, in-your-face, slam-jam-thank-you-ma’am street ball for much of the first three quarters of the NCS playoff opener between the ...
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Aerial assault
Deer Valley’s Imana Samuels flies in for a layup in a 68-58 second-round playoff victory over Livermore on Friday. The Wolverines hosted Castro Valley in a semifinal game on Wednesday.
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Antioch Cop Log: Feb.1 to Feb. 24
Updated 03-04-10
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An Oakley man wants to change Mt. Diablo’s name to Mt. Reagan. County supervisors unanimously voted against the idea last week, but the ultimate decision will be made by a federal agency.<br><i>Photo by Ger Erickson</i> Supervisors give the devil mountain its due
County supervisors last week unanimously opposed a request by Oakley resident Arthur Mijares to change the name of Mt. Diablo to Mt. Reagan. Mijares believes that naming the county’s most prominen...
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Pittsburg officials have threatened to stop contributing to regional road projects if East County officials don’t agree to fund the extension of James Donlon Boulevard west to Kirker Pass Road. James Donlon currently dead-ends near Somersville Road.<br><i>Photo by Dave Roberts</i> Pittsburg ratchets up road fight
For the past 10 months, City of Pittsburg officials have been steadily ratcheting up their threat level – from code blue to yellow to orange – to pull out of an East County road funding agency if ...
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